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Sudipta Mukherjee
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Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books. The book was also translated into simplified Chinese, available from Amazon.cn. This is Sudipta's second book with Packt Publishing. His first book, .NET 4.0 Generics , was also received very well. During the last few years, he has been hooked to the functional programming style. His book on functional programming, Thinking in LINQ, was released in 2014. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. Sudipta can be reached via e-mail at sudipto80@yahoo.com and via Twitter at @samthecoder.
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Identifying praise or criticism with sentiment orientation


The evaluative character of a word is called its semantic orientation. Positive semantic orientation indicates praise (for example, honest, intrepid) and negative semantic orientation indicates criticism (for example, disturbing, superfluous). Semantic orientation varies in both direction (positive or negative) and degree (mild to strong). An automated system for measuring semantic orientation will have its application in text classification, text filtering, tracking opinions in online discussions, analysis of survey responses, and automated chat systems (chatbots).

Semantic Orientation (SO) is used to determine whether a particular phrase is praising or criticizing someone or something. Turney and Littman proposed an algorithm for determining that using SO.

If the SO of the phrase is positive then the phrase is thought to have a positive sentiment; in other words, the phrase is said to be praising. Otherwise, if the SO value of the...

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Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books. The book was also translated into simplified Chinese, available from Amazon.cn. This is Sudipta's second book with Packt Publishing. His first book, .NET 4.0 Generics , was also received very well. During the last few years, he has been hooked to the functional programming style. His book on functional programming, Thinking in LINQ, was released in 2014. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. Sudipta can be reached via e-mail at sudipto80@yahoo.com and via Twitter at @samthecoder.
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